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Difficult woman. Nurse academic, passionate about research into children's healthcare. Also in the other place: @bevcopnell.bsky.social

Melbourne, Victoria
Joined February 2016
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Bev Copnell πŸ‰ retweeted
Replying to @JasonClareMP
@JasonClareMP Please keep Jillian Segal's indoctrination out of our schools. It's not right that a representative of less than half a % of Australia's population has so much influence over policies. Her loyalty is to Israel, not Australia. It's WRONG. #SackSegal
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Bev Copnell πŸ‰ retweeted
Special Envoy Jillian Segal’s latest report is a dangerous and ideologically driven roadmap that threatens freedom of speech, academic freedom and democratic rights, while failing to meaningfully address the root causes of antisemitism. Our release: jewishcouncil.com.au/2026/10…
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Bev Copnell πŸ‰ retweeted
The fact Jillian Segal waited til after her Senate appearance this week before releasing an updated report with further crackdown measures on Universities and public freedoms, after already being caught lying at the antisemitism RC, is an absolute disgrace and she must be sacked.
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πŸ“£ CANADIAN HOSPITALS TO TEST REAL-TIME AIR DISINFECTION β€œAllowing 10% of our patients to get infected is unsustainable. The cost is simply too high. Billions of $ are spent on treatment & many billions more are lost to the inefficiency of blocked beds.” accessnewswire.com/newsroom/…
- PRESS RELEASE - Upper Air UV Pilot Project in Canadian Hospitals β€œAllowing 10% of our patients to get infected is unsustainable,” said Hunt. β€œThe cost is simply too high. Billions of dollars are spent on treatment, and many billions more are lost to the inefficiency of blocked beds.” accessnewswire.com/newsroom/…
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Bev Copnell πŸ‰ retweeted
Pleased to speak in Parliament today & to support the call for a national strategy - indoor air is the biggest opportunity for public health gain both in normal times & in prep for the next pandemic. Australia's indoor air pollution crisis: theage.com.au/healthcare/inv…
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Replying to @PatMcGorry
There is a very, very big threat going unacknowledged here - men's violence against women. Everybody has been very quick to call it political violence because yes, it involves violence against a politician. But very few people* are acknowledging it is men's violence against women, even though it involves a man's violence against a woman. Why is that? *meaning men, because women have certainly been yelling about it non-stop since it happened. Women are everywhere talking about this and so very tellingly, very few are listening. . nitter.gq/PatMcGorry/status/2114…
The horrific attack on Helen Haines revealed 2 threats to Australian society. The surge in abuse of & threat to our elected representatives & the threadbare state of State mental health systems which must be completely rebuilt. Community safety at stake. We can’t jail this away.
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Bev Copnell πŸ‰ retweeted
AHPRA is funded from the compulsory registration fees of health practitioners. Last year the Israel lobby created work for AHPRA with a campaign of vexatious complains against practitioners condemning genocide. Can AHPRA publish how much this contributed to recent fee hikes?
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Could we please have an anti-misogyny envoy in Australia? It is so much more needed than an antisemitism envoy. After all 51% of Australians are female and less than 1% are Jewish and many of those people don’t support Israel’s genocide
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Bev Copnell πŸ‰ retweeted
It’s the 13th wave of Covid right now. The 13th spin of the chamber. Many lives were destroyed from waves 1 to 12, but every wave is an opportunity to join them. The NYT is saying it out loud at last…
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I think it’s also very important to remember that COVID-19 is still around
I think it's very important that we remember that it wasn’t the CEOs and billionaires who saved us during COVID-19. It was the janitors, nurses, cleaning crews, grocery and food workers with their hard, often invisible labor.
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Bev Copnell πŸ‰ retweeted
Canada announces: Telesat, homegrown satellites, will be expanded and Starlink usage will soon be removed. This is what every country on earth should do asap.
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The pandemic never ended
Covid vaccines ended the pandemic
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
In the epidemiology update from the WHO at the end of 2024, they state, "Now, we enter the sixth year of the pandemic, after four years of weekly, monthly, and then quarterly updates to COVID-19 vaccination data..." cdn.who.int/media/docs/def…
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Bev Copnell πŸ‰ retweeted
This is far bigger than betraying Ukraine. It signals that no American ally relying on US technology is safe.
Latest: ​Zelenskyy tells reporters over WhatsApp that restrictions on Ukraine's Starlink systems remain. Interceptor drones can't function, logistics and operations hobbled. The maximum speed is 161 kph; "exceeding this limit causes the Starlink connection to cut out completely, resulting in the loss of the drone." He says Ukraine has done tests to determine whether SpaceX is truly facing technical issues, as has been told Kyiv by the US side, or if this is a "deliberate operation... to restrict us, cut us off, and prevent us from defending ourselves and protecting our people, both at the front and among the civilian population." He says Ukraine "sent a couple of vehicles equipped with Starlink terminals into European Union territory." "They moved at speeds exceeding 180kph, and the Starlink systems worked perfectly. We have the relevant logs and evidence to prove this." He adds: "The conclusion is clear: the restrictions are in effect within Ukraine but do not apply within the European Union. In other words, this is a planned operation."
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Bev Copnell πŸ‰ retweeted
The cycle πŸ”„ continues.
WOW! Diagnosed with ADHD previously, his income protection insurance claim for Long Covid has been turned down." "Long Covid is not a mental health disorder, but a post-viral syndrome with physical symptoms that can be verified..." thepress.co.nz/business/3610…
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Bev Copnell πŸ‰ retweeted
Quite possibly the most surreal thing you'll read in our surreal times. Kids face machine guns with stones so a beaten up journalist can receive help and those kids are then hunted by a terrorist army funded by the journalist's government.
To be clear, the only reason I was able to reach Heidi was because young Palestinians provided cover with rocks against machine-gun- and tear-gas-wielding settlers and soldiers. It’s those kids, not the settler terrorists, who the IDF was hunting after the attack.
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Bev Copnell πŸ‰ retweeted
Israeli settlers are not civilians. They are armed terrorists.
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Bev Copnell πŸ‰ retweeted
Have to say lads I'm not really getting the argument that Israel must exist "as a safe haven for Jews" and also that it is so incredibly dangerous there that they are morally justified in killing everyone else in the immediate vicinity.
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Bev Copnell πŸ‰ retweeted
πŸ‘½ Why SARS-CoV-2 Is So Uniquely Dangerous πŸ‘½ Key Takeaways: SARS-CoV-2 is not "a bad respiratory virus." It is a systemic pathogen whose molecular architecture - a furin cleavage site absent in its closest relatives, near-universal ACE2 tropism, a spike protein that is itself toxic, and the ability to linger in tissue reservoirs - lets it seed simultaneous damage across the vascular, neurological, metabolic, and immune systems. The result is a disease, and an aftermath, with no precedent among coronaviruses, betacoronaviruses, or non-retroviral, non-herpetic RNA viruses.
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Not the alliance between synogogues and Israel, not ethnic cleansing, not genocide, not videos of children's bodies shredded, not Israelis singing about burning villages, not our taxes supporting the Zionist state .... no!! It's the GREENS!!!
From today’s Australian
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